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Aircraft of World War IIby Bill GunstonISBN 0517316803 (0-517-31680-3)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aircraft of World War II'Book summary:The most influential fighters and bombers of WWII - from the well-known Spitfires, Mustangs, Flying Fortresses and Zeros, to the lesser-known Soviet, French and Italian warplanes. Complete with spec tables detailing manufacturer, type, engine, span, wing area, length, height, weight, max speed, ceiling, range, crew, and armament. Detailed text delivers the design and development history of each aircraft.[via]More editions of Aircraft of World War II:
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The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968by William ManchesterISBN 055325992X (0-553-25992-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Behind the Linesby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515119385 (0-515-11938-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Black Crossby Greg IlesISBN 052593829X (0-525-93829-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bomber Commandby Max HastingISBN 0685958922 (0-685-95892-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World Warby John EllisISBN 0670807737 (0-670-80773-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-1939: The Path to Ruinby Williamson MurrayISBN 0691101612 (0-691-10161-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitzby Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn DekelISBN 0688096956 (0-688-09695-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writingby David KahnISBN 0684831309 (0-684-83130-9)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing'Book summary:"Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, they could invent a cipher that no one could break," writes David Kahn in this massive (almost 1,200 pages) volume. Most of The Codebreakers focuses on the 20th century, especially World War II. But its reach is long. Kahn traces cryptology's origins to the advent of writing. It seems that as soon as people learned how to record their thoughts, they tried to figure out ways of keeping them hidden. Kahn covers everything from the theory of ciphering to the search for "messages" from outer space. He concludes with a few thoughts about encryption on the Internet. [via]
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Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harborby Robert B. StinnettISBN 0684853396 (0-684-85339-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Stinnett's argument draws on both circumstantial evidence--the fact, for example, that in September 1940 Roosevelt signed into law a measure providing for a two-ocean navy that would number 100 aircraft carriers--and, more importantly, on American governmental documents that offer apparently incontrovertible proof that Roosevelt knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England. Although obviously troubled by his discovery of a systematic plan of deception on the part of the American government, Stinnett does not take deep issue with its outcome. Roosevelt, he writes, faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them, the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." Sure to excite discussion, Stinnett's book offers what may be the final word on the terrible matter of Pearl Harbor. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bombby Gar Alperovitz, Sanho Tree, Peter DimockISBN 067976285X (0-679-76285-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Devil's Arithmeticby Jane YolenISBN 0670810274 (0-670-81027-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information No One Told You About the Greatest, Most Terrible War in Historyby Albert A. Nofi, James F. DunniganISBN 0688122884 (0-688-12288-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information No One Told You About the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History'Book summary:There aren't many "dirty secrets" in this addictively readable book. Really, it's a compendium of fun facts about horrors arranged in bite-size prose bits and written under the influence of lead author Dunnigan's favorite book, Will Cuppy's irreverent historical classic The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. The minichapters have titles like "Killer Vegetables and the Farts from Hell" (at 20,000 feet, gas caused by eating cabbages expanded, killing airmen). Did you know that every single German spy who infiltrated England became an Allied double agent? That MacArthur, Churchill, and Roosevelt all descended from one Sarah Belcher of Taunton, Massachusetts? That World War II killed about 100 million, or five percent of humanity? That a Russian was 100 times likelier to die than an American? (A USSR boy born in 1923 had an eighty-percent chance of dying by 1945.) We learn the origin of the term "rock & roll" (all weapons firing on automatic), the superiority or stupidity of tracer bullets, Göring's air-war policy, and U.S. troop-replacement policy. Some will argue with this book's rather simple answers to complex questions--was Chamberlain smart to cave to Hitler in the Munich pact because it bought a year to build planes and invent radar, which won the Battle of Britain? Other books come to different conclusions, but few so ably honor the master of snappy history, Will Cuppy. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Duel of Eaglesby Peter TownsendISBN 0671206419 (0-671-20641-9)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Eagle Has Flownby Jack HigginsISBN 0671746693 (0-671-74669-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eagle Has Flown'Book summary:Higgins he picks up where he left off in The Eagle Has Landed with Nazi commando Kurt Steiner and killer/Irish patriot Liam Devlin. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two: A Complete Illustrated Directory of German Battle Tanks, Armoured Cars, Self-Propelled Guns and Semi-Tracked Vehicles, 1933-1945by Peter Chamberlain, Thomas L. Jentz, H. L. DoyleISBN 0668045655 (0-668-04565-5)
Hardcover, Arco Pub Co
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The End of Warby David L. RobbinsISBN 0553581384 (0-553-58138-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War IIby James TobinISBN 0700608974 (0-7006-0897-4)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evilby Ron RosenbaumISBN 0679431519 (0-679-43151-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil'Book summary:Debates concerning the historical and moral significance of Adolf Hitler have gone on since the beginning of his rise to power in Germany. In the decades after his bunker suicide, those debates elevated to arguments over the very nature and existence of evil. An integral part of the arguments has been the ongoing attempt to understand the why of Hitler. In this engaging work of literary journalism, Ron Rosenbaum travels the world to converse with some of the historians, philosophers, filmmakers, and others who have attempted to make sense of Hitler's actions, to find a root cause for the Holocaust.
Rosenbaum methodically examines the evidence for and against all the major hypotheses concerning the origin of Hitler's character. He sifts through all the rumors--including his alleged Jewish ancestry and what biographer Alan Bullock refers to as "the one-ball business"--and the attempts to derive some psychological cause from them. Various Hitlers emerge: Hitler as con man and brutal gangster, Hitler the unspeakable pervert, Hitler the ladies' man, Hitler as modernist artist working in the medium of evil....
But Rosenbaum's portrayals of those who would define Hitler are as fascinating as the shifting perspectives on the führer. Here we see the brave journalists of the Munich Post who attempted to reveal Hitler's evil to the world as early as the 1920s. We witness Shoah director Claude Lanzmann's imperious attempts to stifle analysis of Hitler and the Holocaust, branding such historical inquiries as "obscene." We see the effects, on a frazzled Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, of the controversy surrounding the publication of his Hitler's Willing Executioners. We see the interior crises of Hitler apologist David Irving and philosopher-novelist George Steiner, among others, as they struggle with the ramifications of their work and thought. And, best of all, we have Rosenbaum to serve as an informed, intimate, and on occasion witty guide. In White Noise, Don DeLillo depicted the satirical academic discipline of "Hitler studies;" Ron Rosenbaum breathes a life into the field that no fiction can match. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940by Patrick BishopISBN 0670032301 (0-670-03230-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1945by Adolf GallandISBN 0553267264 (0-553-26726-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Fugitive Piecesby Anne MichaelsISBN 0679776591 (0-679-77659-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitive Pieces'Book summary:Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada. She turns her hand to fiction in an impressive debut novel, Fugitive Pieces. This is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew, translator, and poet who, as a child, witnessed his family's slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Beer himself was found and smuggled out of Poland by Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist who carried him back to Greece and kept him there in precarious safety. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. Jakob's story is told through diaries discovered by Ben, a young man whose parents are Holocaust survivors and who is a vessel for their memories just as Jakob is the bearer of his own.
Fugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. How is it possible to love the living when our hearts are still with the dead? What is the difference between what historical fact tells us and what we remember? More than that, the novel is a meditation on the power of language to free our souls and allow us to find our own destinies. [via]
German Generals Talkby Liddell B. H.ISBN 0688060129 (0-688-06012-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Germans into Nazisby Peter FritzscheISBN 0674350928 (0-674-35092-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Green Glass Seaby Ellen KlagesISBN 0670061344 (0-670-06134-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Glass Sea'Book summary:It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist fatherbut no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she isand, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.[via]More editions of The Green Glass Sea:
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The Guns of Navarone: Force 10 from Navaroneby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0517206404 (0-517-20640-4)
Hardcover, Gramercy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guns of Navarone: Force 10 from Navarone'Book summary:The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book . THE GUNS OF NAVARONE Mallory, Miller and Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the impregnable guns set in the tall cliffs of Navarone. On their success or failure rests one of the most critical offensives of the Second World War. FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of partisans and fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden even from their own allies. [via]
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Hell in Hurtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regimentby Robert S. RushISBN 0700611282 (0-7006-1128-2)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Livesby Alan BullockISBN 0679729941 (0-679-72994-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hitler's Generalsby Corelli BarnettISBN 0688103839 (0-688-10383-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Generals'Book summary:With few exceptions, historians of Germany's leadership during WWII have concentrated on Adolf Hitler. This remarkable study probes instead the relationship between Hitler and his generals--men such as Rommel, Beck, and Model. And Hitler's Generals investigates the mystery of how a generation of able commanders came to be seduced step-by-step by Hitler's false patriotism and cunning manipulation. 26 black-and-white photographs; 15 maps. [via]
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Hitler's Warby David IrvingISBN 0670374121 (0-670-37412-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's War'Book summary:Beginning in 1933 with Hitler's economic and military rebuilding of Germany following World War I, and concluding in 1945 with the events surrounding his alleged Hitler's War is an insider's view of the events from the point of view of the man who held Europe in thrall for more than a decade. 16 pages of photographs. [via]
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Hornet Flightby Ken FollettISBN 0525946896 (0-525-94689-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaustby Livia Bitton-JacksonISBN 0689823959 (0-689-82395-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In Command Of History: Churchill Fighting And Writing The Second World Warby David ReynoldsISBN 0679457437 (0-679-45743-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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In Danger's Pathby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515126985 (0-515-12698-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Invasion: They're Comingby Paul CarellISBN 0553241648 (0-553-24164-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Jane's Fighting Aircraft of WW IIby Leonard BridgmanISBN 0517679647 (0-517-67964-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane's Fighting Aircraft of WW II'Book summary:More than one thousand black-and-white photographs, line drawings, and data tables accompany an authoritative survey of World War II aircraft that reviews the airpower of sixty-eight nations and provides detailed descriptions of each aircraft. [via]
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The Key to Rebeccaby Ken FollettISBN 0688037348 (0-688-03734-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hourby James HornfischerISBN 0553381482 (0-553-38148-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobeby C. S. Lewis, Pauline BaynesISBN 0613930096 (0-613-93009-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter [via]
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London at War 1939-1945by Philip ZieglerISBN 0679432981 (0-679-43298-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940by James S. CorumISBN 0700608362 (0-7006-0836-2)
Hardcover, University Press of Kansas
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The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a World War II Bomber Pilotby Robert Morgan, Ron PowersISBN 0525946101 (0-525-94610-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a World War II Bomber Pilot'Book summary:A hellraiser with a penchant for buzzing airfields, Bob Morgan fell for a Seattle beauty that would carry him through the war in Europe-a four-engined Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress. After falling in love with Margaret Polk of Memphis, Morgan named his new bomber after her-the Memphis Belle. Leader of the first bombing crew to survive twenty-five daylight missions over the flak and fighter-filled skies of Occupied France and Nazi Germany and return to the U.S., Morgan and his plane were made famous by Hollywood film director William Wyler in his 1944 documentary, The Memphis Belle. The only casualty on the Belle was Morgan and Polk's romance-torn apart by the War Department's publicity needs.
Cowritten by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle takes readers into the heart of war above 20,000 feet. After the Belle, Morgan commanded his own squadron over the Pacific, leading the first B-29 raid over Tokyo from the Dauntless Dotty and paving the way for the Allied victory. A powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire, this is an unforgettable memoir of a member of the greatest generation who fought America's greatest battles...and of the war one man fought both in and out of the skies. [via]More editions of The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a World War II Bomber Pilot:
Morning Is a Long Time Comingby Bette GreeneISBN 0671476181 (0-671-47618-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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The Murderersby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515117420 (0-515-11742-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaustby Edith Hahn BeerISBN 068817776X (0-688-17776-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaustby Susan Dworkin, Edith Hahn BeerISBN 068816689X (0-688-16689-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Night over Waterby Ken FollettISBN 0688046606 (0-688-04660-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of Warby Anita LobelISBN 0688159354 (0-688-15935-4)
Hardcover, Greenwillow
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The Pacific Warby John CostelloISBN 0688016200 (0-688-01620-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Popski's Private Armyby Vladimer PeniakoffISBN 0553271709 (0-553-27170-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Proteus Operationby James P. HoganISBN 055325698X (0-553-25698-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Proteus Operation'Book summary:When malcontents from a utopian twenty-first century use their time gate to transform Hitler into an invincible conqueror, a band of freedom-fighting Americans launches the Proteus project and builds a second time gate. Reprint. [via]
Qb VIIby Leon UrisISBN 055327094X (0-553-27094-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Reawakeningby Primo LeviISBN 0684826356 (0-684-82635-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Remains of the Dayby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0679731725 (0-679-73172-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remains of the Day'Book summary:The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence. [via]
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The Reprieveby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0679740783 (0-679-74078-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reprieve'Book summary:An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton. [via]
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The Separationby Christopher PriestISBN 0575070145 (0-575-07014-5)
Softcover, Gollancz
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A Short History of World War IIby James L. StokesburyISBN 0688085873 (0-688-08587-3)
Softcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History of World War II'Book summary:Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War.
A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians. A Short History of World War II will appeal equally to the general reader, the veteran who fought in the War, and the student interested in understanding the contemporary political world.
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Soldiers of Destruction: The Ss Death's Head Division, 1933-1945by Charles W. SydnorISBN 0691008531 (0-691-00853-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0679736379 (0-679-73637-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter of Sophie's Choice.
First published in 1979, this complex and ambitious novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his lover, Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman whose wrist bears the grim tattoo of a concentration camp...and whose past is strewn with death that she alone survived.
"Sophie's Choice is a passionate, courageous book...a philosophical novel on the most important subject of the twentieth century," said novelist and critic John Gardner in The New York Times Book Review. "One of the reasons Styron succeeds so well in Sophie's Choice is that, like Shakespeare (I think the comparison is not too grand), Styron knows how to cut away from the darkness of his material, so that when he turns to it again it strikes with increasing force....Sophie's Choice is a thriller of the highest order, all the more thrilling for the fact that the dark, gloomy secrets we are unearthing one by one--sorting through lies and terrible misunderstandings like a hand groping for a golden nugget in a rattlesnake's nest--may be authentic secrets of history and our own human nature."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its
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Spandau Phoenixby Greg IlesISBN 0525936041 (0-525-93604-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herselfby Judy BlumeISBN 0689840896 (0-689-84089-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Terre Des Hommesby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0686554191 (0-686-55419-1)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terre Des Hommes'Book summary:"Nous habitons une planète errante." Saint-Exupéry, qui vient d'être nommé pilote de ligne, découvre, admire, médite notre planète. Assurant désormais le courrier entre Toulouse et Dakar, il hérite d'une vaste responsabilité à l'égard des hommes, mais surtout de lui-même et de son rapport au monde. Tout en goûtant "la pulpe amère des nuits de vol", il apprend à habiter la planète et la condition d'homme, lit son chemin intérieur à travers les astres. En plus du langage universel, il jouit aussi chaque jour de la fraternité qui le lie à ses camarades du ciel. Il rend hommage à Mermoz ou à Guillaumet, à qui est dédicacé le roman, et dont il rappelle les célèbres paroles : "Ce que j'ai fait, je le jure, jamais aucune bête ne l'aurait fait."
Dès Courrier Sud et Vol de nuit, l'homme d'action a su admirablement se mettre au diapason de l'homme de pensée et de l'humaniste qu'était tout à la fois Saint-Exupéry. Dans Terre des hommes, l'aviateur-écrivain s'intéresse particulièrement à la rigueur qu'exigent les relations humaines. --Laure Anciel [via]
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Three Came Homeby Agnes Newton KeithISBN 0553237187 (0-553-23718-7)
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553575384 (0-553-57538-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War IIby Jennet ConantISBN 0684872889 (0-684-87288-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II'Book summary:This must have been an extremely difficult book to write. Its subject, Alfred Loomis, never gave interviews during his lifetime and destroyed all his papers before his death. "Few men of Loomis' prominence and achievement have gone to greater lengths to foil history," writes author Jennet Conant. Had he not done these things, his name would be better known--and this probably wouldn't be the first biography about him. So who was Alfred Loomis? "He was too complex to categorize--financier, philanthropist, society figure, physicist, inventor, amateur, dilettante--a contradiction in terms," writes Conant. Loomis established a private laboratory in New York and hired scientists whose work in the 1930s wound up making possible both the radar and the atomic bomb. These developments were essential to Allied victory in the Second World War. Conant is perhaps the only person who could have pierced Loomis's obsessive secrecy and written this book; she grew up with Loomis's children and other members of his family. Her grandfather, Harvard president James Bryant Conant, was one of Loomis's scientists. Tuxedo Park is an important book about the development of military technology in the United States; admirers of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and similar titles won't want to miss it. --John Miller [via]
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The Unlikely Spyby Daniel SilvaISBN 0679455620 (0-679-45562-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Victory at Sea: World War II in the Pacificby Albert A. Nofi, James F. DunniganISBN 0688052908 (0-688-05290-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victory at Sea: World War II in the Pacific'Book summary:Victory at Sea brings together in one encyclopedic volume all the facts, figures, and details of the Pacific theater of World War II, containing much information that is unfamiliar or new. Here, acclaimed military historians James Dunnigan and Albert Nofi examine both the massive campaigns launched by all the combatants, including the famous battles for places like Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa, and some of the lesser-known confrontations that were sometimes more strategically important. They also discuss the innovative and unique aspects of a modern war at sea, such as carrier-to-carrier battles and islandhopping campaigns, and tackle the myths, conspiracies, and cover-ups surrounding the dramatic events of the Pacific campaign. An authoritative reference of historic scope and vision, Victory at Sea captures the brilliance and desperation, military strategies and stories of personal valor, to give the most comprehensive overview yet of the war in the Pacific. [via]
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Victory at Sea: World War II in the Pacificby James F. DunniganISBN 0688149472 (0-688-14947-2)
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The Wooden Horseby Eric WilliamsISBN 0563369019 (0-563-36901-9)
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The World at Nightby Alan FurstISBN 0679773290 (0-679-77329-0)
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Yeager: An Autobiographyby Chuck YeagerISBN 0553256742 (0-553-25674-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yeager: An Autobiography'Book summary:General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.
Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before.
The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. It is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero. [via]More editions of Yeager: An Autobiography:
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Yeager: An Autobiographyby Leo Janos, Chuck YeagerISBN 0553050931 (0-553-05093-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yeager: An Autobiography'Book summary:General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.
Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before.
The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. It is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero.
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Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942by David M. Glantz, Mary E. GlantzISBN 070060944X (0-7006-0944-X)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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